Rural Health Summit Agenda 2025
Rural Health Summit Agenda for Friday, Feb. 28, 2025
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. | Networking with Poster Session and Center Displays, CPHB Atrium and C217 |
| 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. | Lightning Talks (Limited to five-minute talks), CPHB N110 |
| 10:30 to 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 to 11 a.m. | Remarks from Dean Parker, CPHB N110 |
| 11 a.m. to noon | Keynote – Alana Knudson, Director, NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis |
| Noon | Lunch, CPHB Atrium |
Lightning Talks (N110 CPHB)
| Talk | Presenter |
|---|---|
| Private, Public, and State Entities Partner with Communities to Improve Rural Vitality using a New Model of the Comprehensive Rural Wealth Framework | Vickie Miene |
| Making the right call quickly: model-based EMS triage for stroke activations | Grant Brown |
| Cancer in Iowa: 99 Counties Project Addresses Local Cancer Rates Across the State of Iowa | Mary Charlton |
| Exploring varied definitions of rurality and their impacts on motor vehicle collision studies | Gilsu Pae |
| Enhancing HPV Vaccine Uptake: A Dental Provider Intervention to Promote HPV Vaccine Referrals in Iowa | Jennifer Sukalski |
| Twenty-five Years of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis | Whitney Zahnd |
| Outreach to Iowans on Climate Change Impacts: 14 years of the Iowa Climate Statement | Peter Thorne |
| The Effect of Telehealth on Cost of Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review | Lauren Lavin |
| Prevalence of antimicrobial resistant genes in the homes of rural Iowa agricultural workers | Kathryn Dalton |
| Recommendations from the national Future of Rural Health Summit | Keith Mueller |
Posters (CPHB Atrium)
| Title | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|
| Evaluating a New Model of the Comprehensive Rural Wealth Framework used by Private, Public, and State Entities to Improve Vitality in the City of Manchester and Van Buren County | Vickie Miene, Sofie Dollison |
| The Prevention Research Center for Rural Health (PRC-RH) | Mark Vander Weg |
| Building a community-wide program delivery infrastructure for an older adult disaster preparedness program: Disaster PrepWise Public Health AmeriCorps | Tiffany Wunderlich |
| Association of Distance to Diagnosis and Area-Based Social Measures with Stage at Diagnosis Among Iowans with HPV-Related Cancers | Emily Janio |
| Rural health matters: Examining the cancer burden and needs in Iowa | Stephanie Evett |
| The University of Iowa Prevention Research Center for Rural Health | Aaron Seaman |
| Trends in Medicare Advantage Enrollment in Iowa (2015-2024): Geographic and Organizational Insights | Edmer Lazaro |
| Prevalence and Risk of Dementia in Rural Iowa: An Urgent Call for Action | Masruk Ahmed |
| Retail Pharmacy in Iowa: 2011-2024 | Fred Ullrich |
| Non-metropolitan/metropolitan differences in barriers to care and utilization of preventive care and health maintenance visits among Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries | Gawain Williams |
| Toenails Tell the Tale: Uncovering Environmental Exposure Risks in Rural Communities | Jong Sung Kim |
| Collaborative Learning for Rural Climate Resilience | Brandi Janssen |
| Neonicotinoids and Reproductive Health | Mary (Molly) Rhodes |
| Communicate Agricultural Exposures and Cancer Risk | Caroline Powell |
| Involvement of Emergency Department and Emergency Medical Services Among Rural and Urban Decedents of Poisoning-Related Suicide | Victor Soupene |
| Iowa Rural and Urban Parents: Beliefs & Prevention of Violence Efforts | Abby Schueller |
| Environmental Health Sciences Research Center (EHSRC) | Rose Phillips |
| Tailoring Chronic Pain Care to Rural Women Veterans: Qualitative and Quantitative Findings on Feasibility, Acceptability, and Benefit of a Telehealth Intervention | Lauren Garvin |
| Iowa Spatial Accessibility to Screening Mammography is Improving, but Utilization Among Privately Insured Women Remains Stable, 2016 – 2022 | Caitlyn Wiener |
| Rural Adolescent Attitudes and Use of Bicycle Helmets in Iowa | Brooke Askelsen |
| Utility Task Vehicle Crashes and Injuries in Iowa | Parker Sternhagen |
| Firearm Presence and Storage Practices Among Rural Adolescents: Findings from a National Survey | Marc Doobay |
| Rural Adolescent Attitudes and Use of Equestrian Helmets | Charles Jennissen |
| Conversations about Safety: Protecting Young Farm Workers | Anna Proctor |
| Harvesting Preparedness: Safeguarding Agriculture through Emergency Preparedness Planning | Matison Howard |
Center Tables (C217 CPHB)
| Center | Contact |
|---|---|
| Rural Telehealth Research Center | Kim Merchant |
| Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest | Laura Keniston |
| Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health | Kimberlee McMichael |
| Iowa’s Center for Agricultural Safety and Health | Tabitha Kuehn |
| Institute for Public Health Practice, Research and Policy | Vickie Miene |
| Midwestern Public Health Training Center | Mary Kosobucki |
| Prevention Research Center for Rural Health | Heidi Haines |
| Injury Prevention Research Center | Ann Saba |
| Preventive Intervention Center | Morgan Wolff |
| Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety | Tammi Goerdt |
| Student Association for Rural Health | Whitney Zahnd |
| IRENE, the Iowa Research Network | Samantha Shaffer |
| Iowa Vital Voices Project | Nicole Novak / Julianna Pacheco |
| Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence | Jennifer Jones |